Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Museum of ancient Macedonian finds, keeper of a charred scroll called Europe's oldest manuscript.
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This guide to the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki follows a single object: a scroll found in January 1962 in a nobleman's grave at Derveni, just outside the city. You'll meet the two archaeologists who spotted it in the ashes, and the Vienna curator handed the delicate job of opening something nobody could safely touch. It also touches on black ink on black carbon, and the decades scholars spent reading it.
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